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Posted by G4MER on Tue Jun 28th at 9:31pm 2005

My youngest son, who is 6 walked in today and asked me, "hey Dad whats this" Holding a VHS tape of some Anime film I had collected and put away in a box when we moved.

I was like "HA Ha Ha Ha, That is a VHS Tape, it has a movie on it." He replied "Oh like a DVD, can we watch it, how will we get it in the tiny hole dad?" I laughed and said " well it requires a VHS player son, but we dont have one any more." He was quick to say, "Oh can we buy one then, I want to see the movie." I had to reply, "well, maybe your grandmother will let us borow hers, lets go call her and find out."

I cant wait till he finds all the robotechs I have on Beta tape out there.. Thats gonna be a bit harder to watch.

Its already beginning.. soon no one will remember VHS as a recording media.. My Uncle still have the orignal DVD's the big record sized gold disk.. and a player in his room.. now thats classic.




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Posted by Noir on Tue Jun 28th at 9:39pm 2005

Yeah, I feel pretty snobby saying this, but I can't even watch VHS anymore. I have a tape of the original Batman and I can't believe people used to watch that crap, the quality was so bad. Progress rules.




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Posted by Andrei on Tue Jun 28th at 10:08pm 2005

Hehe, my VHS player still works (although it jams sometimes ).




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Posted by satchmo on Tue Jun 28th at 10:10pm 2005

I still have a bunch of 5 1/4" floppy disks at my parents' place. I bet most of you wonder why floppies are called floppies when the 3 1/2" disks are actually very rigid.

My dad has used one of those huge 16" floppy disks made by IBM before.




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Posted by G4MER on Tue Jun 28th at 10:34pm 2005

I got ya beat.. I have some huge floppies I dont know the size.. but the device it was put it had a flip top and it was set in place. and even Punch Hole cards from White Sands Missle Range, N.M. My mom worked at a Calibration lab there, and she would bring home boxes full of them. we used them to make Christmas weaths and Barbi houses for my sister, yeah and me some too.. when you have an older sister you tend to play there games when your little.

The stuff my Grandmother had in her attic.. =)


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Posted by Myrk- on Tue Jun 28th at 10:39pm 2005

You mean your uncle has laser discs? They were really big in Hong Kong, rental places usually only had laser discs (the big gold vinyl sized discs in the sleeves).

Crazy isn't it... I wanna know whats coming after CD Discs... The whole evolution of vinyl -> Tape -> CD -> DVD 5.1 Audio -> ?




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Posted by Spartan on Tue Jun 28th at 10:47pm 2005

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Crazy isn't it... I wanna know whats coming after CD Discs... The whole evolution of vinyl -> Tape -> CD -> DVD 5.1 Audio -> ?


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Posted by Myrk- on Tue Jun 28th at 11:00pm 2005

Crazyness I tells ya! They better release the original transformers series' on peanut.


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Posted by Andrei on Tue Jun 28th at 11:02pm 2005

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I still have a bunch of 5 1/4" floppy disks at my parents' place.


Ahh, these:


I still have mig29 fulcrum and boulder-dash on one of these babies <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">. They were 2 of my first dos games. Fond memorieeees.




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Posted by Myrk- on Tue Jun 28th at 11:10pm 2005

I wanna see one of these mysterious 16inch floppies satchmo speaks of...

edit: Oh I gets ya... Your dad used a 16inch floppy Well endowed...




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Posted by Foxpup on Tue Jun 28th at 11:16pm 2005

I've got an old 360K 8" disk and a tape drive gathering dust somewhere.

I also have a 486DX2/66 with local bus VESA graphics and an AWE64 sound system which I still use. It cost $3000... back then, anyway.


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Posted by satchmo on Tue Jun 28th at 11:19pm 2005

Oops, I was wrong. It wasn't 16 inches. It was 8 inches.

Here is the link.




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Posted by Myrk- on Tue Jun 28th at 11:36pm 2005

8 is still above average

Sorry, have to do the Orph humour in his absence!

Tape drives are pretty damn good btw, they hold around 2Gb of data per tape! Also Foxpup, I beat doom 3 in about 2 days, I think its getting more common for people to play it constantly till they finish it :P




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Posted by Nickelplate on Tue Jun 28th at 11:44pm 2005

Talk about old media, I have an old hard drive from very long ago that is actually almost as big as most monitors. We have it at work in the "old tech museum." We also have a chip of RAM that is as big as the Voodoo5 video card (remember those?) or for those who dont know what that looks l;ike, its about half the size of a modern full size ATX motherboard.




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Posted by BlisTer on Wed Jun 29th at 12:23am 2005

? quoting Myrk-
Crazyness I tells ya! They better release the original transformers series' on peanut.

lol <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">




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Posted by Windows 98 on Wed Jun 29th at 2:15am 2005

D.id
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Posted by satchmo on Wed Jun 29th at 2:30am 2005

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They better release the original transformers series'

That's how I learned English back in 1986. I didn't speak a word of English when I came to the U.S., and Optimus Prime taught me everything I knew.

Which transformer did you have as a kid? I had "Hund". It's the jeep. I felt sad when I found out my Mom had donated it to her students.




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Posted by Spartan on Wed Jun 29th at 3:24am 2005

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They better release the original transformers series'

That's how I learned English back in 1986. I didn't speak a word of English when I came to the U.S., and Optimus Prime taught me everything I knew.

Which transformer did you have as a kid? I had "Hund". It's the jeep. I felt sad when I found out my Mom had donated it to her students.



Lol that's a great story. I didn't grow up with the original tranformers. When I was a kid they had the cgi one.




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Posted by G4MER on Wed Jun 29th at 1:03pm 2005

I had that the tape deck dude, with the little tape that turned into a bird.. Man I loved that tpy.. I also got the red and Whit plane, it was a spitting image of the robotech Veritechs.. A friend of mine stole him. =(



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Posted by Dred_furst on Wed Jun 29th at 1:49pm 2005

lol and you think youve got lots of 5 and a half inch floppies:
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all for the bbc micro <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif"> and theyre great games!!!



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